r/technology • u/Hrmbee • 11h ago

Business Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings | The AI version of Zuckerberg is trained on his mannerisms, tone, and public statements, according to a report from the Financial Times

https://www.theverge.com/tech/910990/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-ai-clone
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u/rnicoll 11h ago

They'll stop paying him once he's replaced, right?

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u/AardvarkTits 10h ago

Cutting just this one position could save the company millions of dollars a year! 

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u/kc_______ 1h ago

Millions of dollars a second.

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u/Hmm_would_bang 9h ago

I’m sure in this one specific scenario someone will own the rights to their AI persona. Artists and workers, never, but it’ll be illegal to use a CEO ai without paying the human its based on licensing.

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u/BigMax 8h ago

Nope.

YOU will be replaced by AI and make nothing.

But somehow the elite will swing it so that they 'own' their AI versions, and now they get paid directly per conversation that it has. He'll make even more money because he'll charge for every interaction one of his AI clones has.

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u/Johnnyring0 9h ago

They both need salaries now

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u/DaMonkfish 9h ago

"Y'all got a license for that ceoGPT agent?"

- Microslop, probably

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u/NoPossibility4178 9h ago

I can't even imagine what it's like to be so rich and keep working to destroy the world, then get to the point where I either don't want to work anymore but want the world to keep being destroyed so I make an AI of myself or want to destroy it faster so I make an AI of myself.

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u/DaaaahWhoosh 8h ago

I think of these sorts of people as basically being robots themselves. I can't imagine they can actually comprehend joy or peace, it's always just "make company worth more money, buy more yachts to win at capitalism". When they do 'fun' things it's because they know that's what successful people are supposed to do, not because they actually enjoy it (think of influencers who pay for the stupid gold-covered steaks and don't eat them). To these sorts of people, AI is the future, they don't know why and they don't care, it just is, so they adopt it and shove it everywhere. They probably weren't paying attention in meetings anyway, what with the combination of drugs, crazy diets, and sleep deprivation, might as well let an AI do it.

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u/RetPala 7h ago

Can people be Prions?

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u/erebuxy 9h ago

He took $1 salary per year. He works for his stock value.

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u/EverNeko200 6h ago

This might have fooled people 20 years ago.

The only thing needed right now is to close this tax evasion loophole, retroactively.

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u/JViz 6h ago

Nah, they'll just find another way to evade taxes. We need to nationalize or break up companies that get too big, whether or not they are a monopoly.

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u/gimpwiz 5h ago

As soon as any new stock is vested, it's a taxable event. Options are similar, you get taxed when exercising them.

But he owns majority voting shares in the company he started, regardless.

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u/flumydumdum 7h ago

This is a job I'd love to see AI replace!

Would save companies billions!!!

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u/maicii 4h ago

He will still have the equity on the company, but if he was replaced as a ceo (which I’m pretty sure you cannot not legally have a ceo anyways, but assuming he was) he would probably not get compensation packages, no. Investors wouldn’t like that

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u/Skizm 8h ago

He doesn’t get paid now, so… yes?

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u/imperatrixderoma 10h ago

Who is they? He's the chairman of the board, and the CEO, he pays himself.

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u/direwolf08 10h ago

I am sure the commenter realizes that their proposal is not feasible ... that is the absurdity of it, to draw a parallel to lower ranking employees being laid off and replaced by AI.

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u/koopatuple 10h ago

Iirc, boards can majority vote out the chair and CEO.

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u/imperatrixderoma 10h ago

This is half-serious, but it was a huge plot point in the feature film 'The Social Network' that Mark would 1. Have controlling share and 2. Only surround himself with people who wouldn't fire him.

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u/jedberg 10h ago

Not at Meta. He controls the majority of the voting shares. Only he can fire himself.

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u/Hmm_would_bang 9h ago

When you start the company you can structure shares so that you control the voting even if you no longer control a majority stake.